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How can the law be employed pragmatically to facilitate development and underpin illiberal principles? The case of contemporary China shows that the law plays an increasingly important role in the country's illiberal approach to both domestic and China-related global affairs, which has posed intellectual challenges in understanding it with reference to conventional, Western legal concepts and theories. This book provides a systematic exploration of the sources of Chinese law as pragmatically reconfigured in context, aiming to fill the gap between written and practised law. In combination with fieldwork investigations, it conceptualises various formal and informal laws, including the Constitution, congressional statutes, supreme court interpretations, judicial documents, guiding cases and judicial precedents. Moreover, it engages a theoretical analysis of legal instrumentalism, illuminating how and why the law works as an instrument for authoritarian legality in China, with international reflections on other comparable regimes.

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'… an excellent addition to the existing scholarship in transitional justice, authoritarian legality, and Chinese law … Recommended.' Z. Ni, Choice

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Shucheng Wang is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He was a Fulbright Scholar (Emory University) and a Clarendon Scholar (Oxford University). He has authored three books and over fifty articles. He is also an affiliated researcher of the Law and Religion in the Asia Pacific Region program at The University of Queensland, Australia.

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